Key : C#m
Time signature : 4/4
Tempo : 104 bpm

Note 1: I learned this song in C#minor, standard tuning because the record version seemed closer to C# than C.
It also allows me to play my 6-string guitar with nice "chime" chords heard from the 12-string in the verse.
                   EADGBe
            =  x46600
           =  x24422
           =  x02200
          
  For the intr

  =  
o, chorus and 

outro I use ba

rre chords.
        C#m     =  9bb999
               =  799877
             
  *Frets above

  =  
 the 9th are i

dentified by l

etters (a=10, 

b=11, etc.)

Note 2: The intro (first chord) starts on the up of the 3rd beat.

[Intro]
        
2x bass, drum 

 
and rhythm gui

tar
2x add Solo 1

[Verse 1]
          
  There must b

         
e some kind of

         
 way out of he

    
re,
         
  Said the jok

      
er to the thie

  
f,
      
 There is too 

        
much confusion

 
,
      
  I can't get 

     
no relief
        
Businessman th

         
ey drink my wi

 
ne,
     
Plowman dig my

   
 earth
       
None will leve

         
l on the line,
     
  Nobody offer

         
ed his word,  


hey

[Chorus]
      
4x Solo 2

[Verse 2]
        
  No reason to

      
 get excited,
       
The thief, he 

       
kindly spoke
      
There are many

         
 here among us
          
Who feel that 

         
life is but a 

   
joke
        
But you and I,

      
 we've been th

           
rough that
        
And this is no

     
t our fate
          
So let us not 

        
talk falsely n

 
ow,
        
The hour is ge

    
tting late

[Chorus]
4x Solo 3
4x Solo 4 (slide)
4x Solo 5 (wah+)
4x Solo 6 (double-stops +power)

[Verse 3]
     
  All along th

        
e watchtower
     
Princes kept t

    
he view
          
While all the 

         
women came and

  
 went
     
Barefoot serva

      
nts too
     
Outside in the

          
 cold distance
     
A wildcat did 

 
growl
       
Two riders wer

       
e approaching
          
And the wind b

    
egan to howl

[Chorus]
4x Solo 7
All along the watchtower.

[Outro]
4x  Fade out with solo vibrato on high C# note (optionally song could end on next A chord)